Two questions about video gambling games I've seen but not understood, can anyone explain?

[Chrisulrich]

Dear Anyone.

If this should be 2 separate posts, forgive me.  Just tell me and I'll redo it. 

Firs t one's a kind of video poker.  I understand the version where you're just dealt five cards, if the cards match a winning hand you win. That's easy. This one, the guy had his hand dealt to him but there were rows and rows of other hands above his dealt hand, all face down.  SOME of them got turned up - not all the rows, about the first 2 rows above his hand - and he won bits of money.  It was all happening pretty fast and I couldn't work out if he was winning by beating the other hands, or if he was matching the other hands to win somehow, or really what the (censored!!) was going on! Was a Vegas streamer on YouTube, I've never seen anything like that game over in England where I live. 

The other question's a whole different one.  I thought the max. win possible outside of a casino in the UK was £500.  Then I fell over this vid. on YouTube - yup, watch YouTube gambling vids. a lot, stops me going into bookies with my wallet open, sad isn't it! - where there were Rainbow Riches bingo terminals.  There were a bunch of bingo cards on the screen, a random number generator giving out numbers as bingo balls which were flying out to fill the cards, it was an ordinary-looking bingo hall - you could hear the games being called in the background - and the pots were THOUSANDS!! Like getting on for THREE GRAND!! What happened to £500 max jackpot there!?! (And why don't you see these bingo game ones more often if they're allowed to have thousands in the pot?) I've been in bingo halls and I've never seen any other games with thousands in the pot - never seen those bingo ones anywhere apart from in this one video TBH. 

I'm attaching a picture of the jackpots - remember, the guy's in an ordinary bingo hall, least it sounds like one - and the vid. itself is HERE

How are they getting around the law? 

[Blackjax]

I wish I could help but I am neither into poker or bingo. Hope some UK players can help you. 

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